A City of Cape Town tender calling for bids from private companies to demolish illegal informal structures has left activists fuming. TheCapeArgus
Mayco member for Human Settlements Malusi Booi said the tender was issued every three years for a service provider to assist in the dismantling of illegally erected structures in terms of what the law allowed the City to do.
“We can only assume that the motivation behind this tender is to escalate operations to evict and demolish informal housing structures. We find the City’s persistence in this regard repugnant. A successful tender merely arms the City to continue targeting poor, homeless and landless people under the guise of upholding the rule of law and preventing land invasions.”
The tender advertisement appeared in the Cape Argus on June 12. A clarification meeting is expected to be held in Ndabeni today.
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